Innovation at Horsens Regional Hospital
Learn about Horsens Regional Hospital's facilities, services, and commitment to innovation.
Horsens Regional Hospital at a glance
Horsens Regional Hospital is a 200-bed teaching hospital characterized by a strong sense of community, a cross-disciplinary approach, an innovative mindset, and data-driven solutions. The hospital treats patients with the most common diseases and offers a few specialist treatments. Staff has a high professional level, and the hospital is dedicated to make students and new colleagues feel welcome - both professionally and socially.
The size of the hospital makes it agile and responsive to the constantly changing demands in healthcare, but also to new ideas, approaches, and solutions. Innovation and research are integrated in the hospital’s DNA as crucial elements to continuously provide evidence-based and sustainable treatment and care. This is successfully supported by commitment and close ties between management, researchers, and clinicians across the hospital.
Facts about Horsens Regional Hospital (2023):
Discharges: 27,310
Average length of stay: 2.3 days
Outpatient visits: 205,825
Births: 2,213
Surgeries: 20,094
Emergency Department visits: 17,343
Municipalities in hospital catchment area: Horsens, Hedensted, Odder and Skanderborg.
Residents in catchment area: 232,853
Full-time staff: 1,617
Research staff: Associate professors: 3, Clinical associate professors: 7, PhD students: 7, Senior researchers: 7.
Organisational strengths
CROSS-TRACKS
CROSS-TRACKS is a research programme producing cross-disciplinary, cross-institutional, and cross-sectorial research of high international quality using quantitative methods including AI.
The aim of CROSS-TRACKS is to predict, improve and prevent individual risk factors to find the best data-driven and sustainable solutions promoting coherent patient pathways as well as equality and equity in health.
The programme uses already collected health data on all Danish citizens above 18 years in Central Denmark Region, comprising highly valid and complete data from primary and secondary care as well as national registries.
University Clinic for Fertility
Horsens Regional Hospital in collaboration with Skive Regional Hospital hosts a university clinic for couples in need of fertility treatment across Central Denmark Region. Researchers in the clinic are internationally acknowledged for their contributions to explore causes of and treatment for both male and female infertility.
University clinics are based on a formalised agreement between Aarhus University, Health, and Central Denmark Region to promote scientific beacons at regional hospitals.
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CAAIR - Collaboration on Applied AI Research and Digital Innovation in Healthcare
The research programme centres around data-driven healthcare solutions and aims to develop, test, and implement evidence-based clinical AI tools and real-time analysis of patient data to support clinical decision-making. A wide variety of research institutions and professionals in Central Denmark Region are involved in the programme, and different methodological approaches and traditions are represented.
Head of Programme is Marianne Johansson Jørgensen, Head of Research, Horsens Regional Hospital.
Safe Patient Flow and Safe Surgical Flow
Crowding and capacity challenges lead to poor patient safety and a poor staff working environment. The aim of Safe Patient Flow is to ensure safe and coherent pathways with no unnecessary delays.
Safe Surgical Flow has an inbuilt classification system ensuring that patients are prioritized according to the urgency of the surgery. This optimizes use of surgical facilities and staff resources as well as patient safety.
The backbone of these two projects can be transferred to many other areas to mitigate capacity challenges and optimize use of resources while promoting patient and staff safety.
What we offer
At Horsens Regional Hospital, there is a short distance and strong ties between management and clinicians. In addition to solid research competences, the hospital has a well-established improvement culture and an innovative mindset.
There is a profound understanding of and respect for the clinical work as the backbone of the hospital. The clinical environments are positive and open-minded to play an active role and take part in innovation, research, and development work.
What we need
Horsens Regional Hospital is strongly committed to play a leading role in research, innovation, and collaboration with both public and private partners.
To further support our organisational strengths in data-driven solutions and use of AI, we are particularly interested in collaborations in this field.